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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Well to sum up the entire article, it’s obviously racist. Since everything else is racist why not this article that merely points out that much of the violent crime in Chicago is committed by blacks. The truth is racist, statistics are racist, facts are racist. Is,there a pattern here that everybody should be getting extremely fed up,with. Cry wolf over and over and over and over again and suddenly nobody cares about the wolf. Keep on blaming racism for the problems is the black community over and over and over and suddenly there really isn’t any racism.